Sorry, this chapter took so long but I had to have it just right for you guys.


Painting in Paradise

"Tony, can I please get up?" Ziva begged from their bedroom. "Nope. Sweet cheeks." Tony called from across the hall in the nursery. "I do not enjoy this bed rest." Ziva complained as she set down her book. "You don't enjoy me waiting on you hand and foot?" he asked as he walked into the room with yellow paint smears going along his face. The doorbell rang from down stairs and Ziva started to get up when Tony pushed her back down.

"Let me." He insisted before he left and nearly ran down the stairs and opened the front door. A woman about Ziva's age with dark sandy colored hair and matching brown eyes and olive toned skin, who just looked like she had gotten back from some long trip, with a little girl looking identical to her was standing in front of him. "Hi, I'm Eden." She said politely.

"I'm Tony." "I'm looking for Ziva?" she said hopefully and he nodded before gesturing form them follow him. They all walked up the stairs and Tony stepped into the bedroom, and Ziva looked up at them, "Hey!" she exclaimed when she recognized the woman and they immediately hugged each other.

"I take it you know each other?" he asked as the woman known as 'Eden' sat down on the bed and lifted the girl onto her lap. "Tony, this is Eden. She was my best friend, when we were children. Eden this Tony, my husband." Ziva explained. Tony held out his hand and Eden shook it. "Nice to meet you." He kissed Ziva's head before abruptly leaving the room.

"Come here, Lyla." Ziva beckoned as she folded her legs like a pretzel. The small girl climbed into Ziva's lap. "How old are you now, Ly'?" she asked as she undid a braid. "3." Lyla announced and Eden smiled. "3 years of always being on my toes." she replied. Ziva weaved her hand through Lyla's long sandy colored hair. "I hope my child has hair as tame as yours Lyla." She said. "You're pregnant? I had no idea!" Eden joked, and Ziva rolled her eyes.

"Yes, I am pregnant." "Girl or Boy?" Eden asked excitedly. "Girl." Eden hugged her gently trying not crush her daughter. "But I didn't come here for that, I came here to chew you out." Ziva furrowed her eyebrows, "Why?" Eden placed her hands on her hips, "You forgot to tell me, you got married." she emphasized. "Oh yeah, and you running off and getting married isn't better?" Ziva pushed and Eden lightly hit her ankle, "Hey, my marriage fell apart after a few days; you've been married for FOUR MONTHS." She said.

"Well…." Tony said from the doorway and all the women turned and looked at him. "Not four months exactly." Ziva said meekly. "Like 3 and a half?" Eden quizzed, and the couple shook their heads. "More like 4 months." Tony admitted. "Where do babies come from?" Lyla piped up and Ziva raised her eyes at Eden. "Hey, Delilah you come and help me paint the baby's room?" Lyla nodded eagerly before climbing off of Ziva's lap and following Tony out.

"She's getting big." Ziva commented. "Yeah," Eden sighed. "But anyway, come tell me about your new life." Eden insisted. "It's different." Eden laughed, "I would hope so."

"No, I mean like really different. Nobody to tell me that I can't have something that I've wanted for years. I have somebody who wants to give me want I've wanted and loves me for it." Eden raised her eyebrows, "Wow. Somebody took a dramatic pill this morning." Ziva laughed. "My life isn't exactly and Eden-."

"A what?" Tony interrupted. Ziva looked over at him, "Eavesdropping much? " He grinned. "NO. I was going to ask you a question." "Which was?" Tony froze, "Um….have you seen the blue tape?" Ziva pointed, "On your tool belt." Tony looked down, "Oh. Um….."

"Do you want me to call Gibbs?" Tony nodded, "Please."

"Who's Gibbs?" Eden asked. "Um, he's our boss. But he's one of the godfather's." Eden nodded, "Interesting." She teased and Ziva kicked her. "Knock it off, Perry."

"Wait, I thought her name was Eden?" Ziva sighed and looked over at him, "It is. But it means paradise in Hebrew, and I sometime call her Perry." Tony nodded before saying, "So, uh, are you going to call him?" she shrugged before the doorbell rang, "Didn't have too."

Tony shook his head in disgust, "No trust." He muttered before running to open the door. "He seems…charming." Eden joked and Ziva grinned. "He is everything and more," Eden nodded with a grin, "I think that's the hormones talking."

Ziva smiled, "You're probably right." She heard boots climb up onto the staircase before Gibbs walked into her room with Abby bounding alongside McGee. "Hi Ziva!" Abby said excitedly as she hugged her. "Hey, Abby." Ziva said cautiously. Eden looked between the group as the exchanged hugs, "Oh yeah. Um, Gibbs, Abby, McGee this is my friend, Eden. She is visiting." Ziva said as she introduced everyone. "Hi!" Abby said as she hugged Eden who was just as surprised.

"I'm gonna go look at what your husband is doing to that nursery." Gibbs explained and Ziva smiled before he left with McGee. Abby sat beside her, "Delilah." Ziva called and the small girl ran in with a set of cookies in hand, crumbs all over her face. "Tony gave those to you didn't he?" Ziva and she nodded eagerly before devouring another, "That's so Joshua." Ziva declared and Abby furrowed her eyebrows, "Who's Joshua?"

"My daddy." Delilah said as Eden lifted her into her lab. "My X-husband." She clarified. "You were married before?" Eden nodded, "Yeah, for about 2 months before I left, with her." While the two women talked. Delilah slipped from her mother's grasp and crawled over to Ziva and started placing little pieces of cookie in her mouth. She giggled as Ziva held her tight against her chest.

"Okay! Okay! Here!" she shouted before talking the rest of it and shoving it into her mouth. Ziva giggled and grinned before Delilah gasped, "What's wrong baby?" Eden asked. "Mommy, something kicked me." Delilah tattled. Eden smiled, "It's just Ziva's baby, honey."

"Well where is the baby?" she asked. "In my tummy." Ziva said and Delilah lightly touched where Aimee had just kicked. "Here?" she asked and Ziva nodded, "Well, technically." Ziva gestured to her whole stomach, "Everywhere down there."

"Well, how does it come out?" she asked. "Slowly and Painfully." Eden described and Ziva glared over at her. "Hey, I'm just saying." Eden said in response to the glare. "OW!" They all heard, and it wasn't for Ziva. Tony walked into the room rubbing the back of his head, "Boss said we need more paint. Can you go pick some up Abs?"

"I can do it." Ziva insisted as she sat up. "Sweet cheeks-." "Tony, if you don't let me go I won't be sweet cheeks anymore." She growled and Tony sighed, "There and back." He said and she agreed. He kissed her head before hesitating and heading into the other room, "So, whose car are we taking?" Abby asked and Ziva grinned.

"Abby, what did I tell you before? What's his is mine." Eden smiled, "That's like the one good thing about being married." Ziva stood up and threw on different shirt and sandals before grabbing the keys to Tony's mustang. "Oh no. No way." Tony said as they started to walk out the door.

"What?" Ziva asked innocently. "My baby-." Tony started but Ziva interrupted.

"Um, last time I checked which was pretty recent," Ziva pointed to her stomach, "This is your baby." Abby shrugged, "She does have a point."

Gibbs came trudging down on the stairs with Delilah, "Get in the car." He demanded and Ziva handed him the keys, "No point in waiting for you three to get back." He muttered.

Tony ushered them all out of the house before locking the door. He turned around in aw when he saw Eden hand Ziva the car seat from her car. "You have to let me borrow that." Tony pleaded and Eden grinned up at him, "A Mercedes-Benz not in your price range?" she teased and Ziva smiled, "Not if this baby is a David." Tony muttered as he pulled the driver's door open.

He was surprised that Ziva wouldn't argue with him about driving, but he wouldn't let it show, for he knew she would say something about it. He climbed into the driver's seat, and made sure everybody was buckled before he started the car and started toward the nearest Lowes.


"Mommy, Mommy, What's that?" Lyla asked as she pointed to the tractors. "Those are tractors." Eden explained Lyla looked at one curiously. "They cut grass." Tony stated and she nodded, "Ohhhh." Ziva smiled before she took Tony's hand with hers and all seven, no eight of them started walking toward the paint aisle. "Can the baby's room be like green? A bright green!" Lyla exclaimed excitedly and Ziva chuckled.

"Um, Ly, we were kinda hoping for a yellow." Tony said hesitantly and Delilah thought about it for a moment, "Can I pick the yellow out?" she asked and Ziva nodded. "Not to bright." She calls after her as she and Abby take off toward the yellows.

"So, uh, where's Matt?" Eden asked and Ziva looked up at Tony. "Don't say it." She ordered, but it couldn't be helped, "Ziva set him up with….a girl from the office, they hooked up, multiple times, and now they're having twins."

Ziva hit him, "I told you not to say anything." Eden snickered, "Ziva, don't beat up your husband." Ziva rolled her eyes at her, "I can do whatever the hell I want."

Eden shook her head jokingly,

"You are so right, and this is going to be fun."


All right, I know this is kinda short but I wanted to give you guys SOMETHING, I have the second part and I plan to post it later.